control tower

英 [kənˈtrəʊl taʊə(r)]

美 [kənˈtroʊl taʊər]

n.  (机场的)指挥塔台，控制塔，指挥调度台

牛津词典

noun

• （机场的）指挥塔台，控制塔，指挥调度台
  a building at an airport from which the movements of aircraft are controlled

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT (飞机场的)指挥塔台，控制塔，指挥调度员
  Acontrol toweris a building at an airport from which instructions are given to aircraft when they are taking off or landing. You can also refer to the people who work in a control tower as thecontrol tower.
  1. The pilot told the control tower that he'd run into technical trouble.
     飞行员报告机场控制塔他遇到了技术问题。

英英释义

noun

• a tower with an elevated workspace enclosed in glass for the visual observation of aircraft around an airport

双语例句

• It's easy for anyone to land a plane providing there is someone in the control tower to talk you down.
  只要控制塔里有人指挥你降落，任何人都能轻而易举地驾驶飞机着陆。
• The plane buzzed the control tower.
  飞机低低地飞过控制塔。
• One 16-inch shell struck the control tower
  一枚16英寸的炮弹击中了指挥塔台。
• Infantrymen ran to secure all access to roads to the airport and to take over New Terminal and the control tower.
  步兵跑去把守所有机场出入道路，占领新航站楼以及控制塔台。
• The pilot tried to make contact with the airport's air traffic control tower, but was unable to do so for a period of 12 minutes.
  飞行员试图联系机场航空管制塔台，但12分钟内无人回应。
• He contacted the control tower by radio.
  他用无线电与指挥塔取得了联系。
• The pilot told the control tower that he'd run into technical trouble.
  飞行员报告机场控制塔他遇到了技术问题。
• This guy should have stayed in the control tower.
  这家伙真应该继续留在塔台。
• Control tower: a tower at an airfield from which air traffic is controlled by radio and observed physically and by radar.
  指挥塔台：可在其中用无线电指挥空中交通并可用肉眼或雷达观察空中交通的机场指挥塔台。
• Swaziland's International Airport has no working control tower or radar system, and lighting for nighttime landings is so poor that pilots are forced to fly by memory, the government has been told.
  斯威士兰政府获悉，该国国际机场的指挥塔和雷达系统都已失灵，夜间降落的照明条件也很差，使得飞行员只能凭记忆飞行。